[olug] slackware help?

[neal r]

 Cute. How do you get a 2286k file on a floppy?


  I did find the five disk set of color.gz in uncompressed form ... but
please do answer my question :-)


George Neill wrote:

> The root disk is called 'color.gz', grab that and dd' it do a fd.
>
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/rootdisks/color.gz
>
> >
> >
> >   I came to the installfest with a small laptop and 80 meg drive and
> > went away to try Trinux.org's distro again. After much frustration I'm
> > just going to follow their lead and create my own Slackware based system
> > to do what I need (wireless monitoring using http://www.soekris.com
> > machines).
> >
> >
> >   I've got 8.1 on CD and I made a boot disk using bare.i but now it
> > wants a root disk and that is nowhere in sight - anyone know what the
> > next step is?
> >
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